September 23, 2013

Vexsome

In researching Exploding The Phone I spammed various federal agencies with hundreds of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. The FBI bore the brunt of my requests since I figured they were the agency that had the most info on phone phreaks. According to my tracking spreadsheet I sent them about 400 requests over the course of four or five years.

Recently Jason Smathers of Muckrock filed his own FOIA request to the FBI, asking them for a copy of their "vexsome filer list" (vexsome: adj., tending to cause annoyance, frustration, or worry [1]).